The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services today announced the state’s five Medicaid prepaid health plans have joined NCCARE360 — the nation’s first statewide coordinated care network connecting individuals to local services and resources.
Published: Wednesday, August 4th, 2021 @ 11:09 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Starting July 1, nearly 1.6 million Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina will begin receiving the same Medicaid services in a new way through NC Medicaid Managed Care health plans.
Published: Wednesday, July 14th, 2021 @ 9:02 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Lawmakers are fighting to help small businesses afford health insurance, but they’re running out of time.
Published: Monday, December 21st, 2020 @ 3:45 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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Greensboro-based Cone Health and Norfolk, VA-based Sentara Healthcare on Wednesday announced plans to merge the two hospital systems.
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2020 @ 3:17 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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State employees are no longer in immediate danger of paying out-of-network costs for their health care, but they may confront higher premiums and higher taxes later.
Published: Thursday, August 15th, 2019 @ 1:18 pm
By: Carolina Journal
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It's time to give American families quality, reliable, affordable healthcare - and that's what we are working very hard to do.
Published: Thursday, February 14th, 2019 @ 3:56 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Today the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) for organizations wishing to participate in Medicaid managed care as Prepaid Health Plans (PHPs) when the program launches in 2019
Published: Saturday, August 11th, 2018 @ 12:20 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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Some lawmakers hope to allow family farmers, small farm-related businesses, and others to band together for more affordable health coverage. The move could help hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians
Published: Sunday, June 24th, 2018 @ 1:23 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The continuing calls to expand Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act have a seemingly unlikely ally - Medicaid Health Plans of America, the trade association representing a number of top Medicaid managed care organizations
Published: Thursday, April 21st, 2016 @ 10:28 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Last Monday, the John Locke Foundation hosted a thoughtful health care forum where three expert panelists offered insight on the status of Kansas, Louisiana, and Florida's Medicaid reforms. Featured speakers included Kansas Lt. Governor Jeff Colyer, a pediatric plastic surgeon and leader of...
Published: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2015 @ 5:35 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As couples celebrated the most recent Valentine's Day, it looked as if Obamacare's love for the young invincibles remained unrequited.
Published: Sunday, February 23rd, 2014 @ 1:22 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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As the costly implementation of the perversely named Affordable Care Act continues to baffle, disappoint, and enrage the public, a collection of government vendors and left-wing groups has settled on a brilliant political strategy: castigate North Carolina for failing to do enough to implement the A
Published: Thursday, December 19th, 2013 @ 1:52 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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The mainstream media has been dutifully regurgitating the lefty press releases demanding that the minimum wage be doubled immediately.
Published: Saturday, December 7th, 2013 @ 11:02 pm
By: Brant Clifton
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A health insurance exchange, commonly referred to in the media simply as an “exchange,” is an online marketplace where individuals can shop for heavily regulated nongroup health plans offered by participating insurance companies.
Published: Tuesday, November 26th, 2013 @ 10:08 pm
By: John Locke Foundation
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